The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe EVER!

Since I started blogging I’ve always wanted to do a post on my chocolate chip cookies. You see.. my chocolate chips are all that and a bag of pretzels. But the problem is, EVERYONE and their grandma think their chocolate chip cookies are the best. So I decided I wouldn’t do a post because it seemed overplayed (putting it mildly). I just didn’t have it in me to enter the “I have the best chocolate chip cookie recipe” rat race.

But months ago I had asked the question on Twitter on why people believed their recipe was really the best. And from that moment on, Ashley Rodriguezand I would engage in the “Chocolate chip cookie Tweet wars”. I asked her to post her recipe and she kindly pointed me to her beautiful site. I made her recipe that same evening and I must say they were incredibly good. I reported back my results to her and said this.. “They were really good, almost as good as mine.” Her next tweet went something like this, “Almost?” – a.k.a “Say what?!?” Because we’re good friends and lovingly joke around a lot with each other, I can tell you that she really does have a fabulous recipe. But I can also tell you with bold confidence, my recipe is pretty fierce – if I do say so myself. The reason why I love this recipe is because it is not overly sweet and primarily uses brown sugar. The brown sugar gives it a more caramel type chewiness and more depth than the traditional Toll House type of recipe. As a result, you get a nice crisp bottom, but the rest of the cookie is soft and chewy.

These are the cookies my sister who lives in Germany asks me to send her because they are all she can think about when she thinks of home. They are the same cookies she shared with her platoon in Iraq and the same cookies I will be sending to her in Afghanistan. I once sent her a batch of a new recipe and trust me, she noticed. I was told not to deceive her again and send my version only.

But last night it happened again. It all started out so innocently. A typical night of tweeting and before I knew it, somehow I had trash tweeted my way into a chocolate chip cookie bake off with my good friends Lorna Yee and Ashley Rodriguez. If I recall correctly, the conversation went something like this.

Me to Ashley: Bring It!
Ashley to Me: Oh I’ll Bring It!

And before I knew it, other people were arranging a bake off. Moral of the story.. do not tweet and trash if you can’t back it up. And for the record, I can back it up. Enough said.

I present to you my favorite and original Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. Enjoy!

Preheat oven to 360 degrees. Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar until it is nice and fluffy (approx. 3 minutes on medium-high speed on a K-5). Add both eggs and vanilla and beat for an additional 2 minutes. Add baking soda, baking powder, salt, and flour until cookie batter is fully incorporated. Finally add chocolate chips until well distributed. The cookie batter should be somewhat thick. Drop about 2 tablespoons of dough or use a medium cookie scoop and plop the batter onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 12-14 minutes until the edges are nice and golden brown. Remove from heat and allow the cookies to stay on the cookie sheet for an additional 2 minutes. Pick up the parchment paper with the cookies still on top and transfer to a cool non-porous surface. Allow the cookies to cool on the paper for at least 3 minutes before serving. Enjoy!

Notes

*please do not use table salt, the sea salt gives the cookies a nice flavor and hints of texture. If you only have table salt, use ½ tsp. *When using sea salt, you will get small crunchy flecks of salt when you bite into the cookie. If you do not like this taste, go with ½ teaspoon of table salt.
*I realized grocery stores sell bags of chocolate chips in 12 oz bags but this recipe really needs every last chip. Otherwise you’ll get cookies with only a few chips in each one and this recipe requires lots of chocolate to bulk the cookie up. You’ll need about 1½ bags.

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*Troubleshooting*

-If you’re cookies are coming out flat and not like the pictures there are probably 3 reasons for this.

#1) Baking powder and Baking soda is old. If your baking powder and soda is older than 1 year and has not been in a sealed (preferably air tight) container, it has lost some of it rising qualities.

#2) Creaming. It is not enough to just cream the butter and sugars until it has come together. This recipe requires you to beat it with a mixer for 3 minutes until the texture of the butter and sugar turns to light and fluffy-just like the picture.

#3) Flour. Flour should be weighed. This can make or break the recipe because just scooping flour into a measuring cup will never yield ideal or consistent results.

Comments

Amazing cookies! I love how they crisp on the bottom and edges but still soft in the middle. The color also is lovely (great for gifts!). I couldn’t find flour so I improvised with 9oz of oatmeal and 3oz almond flour – combined and ground into a powder (via food processor). The cookies came out VERY flat but still tasted great. I then looked harder and found flour. I added 1/2 cup and then cookied the rest of the batter. Those ones turned out perfect. Just the right depth and even better with the soft inside and crisp outside.

These are perfect gift cookies, can’t wait to make them for the holidays. And maybe I’ll keep my own adaptation (oatmeal flour, almond flour, all purpose flour) because the flavor is unique!

Very nice flavor. I had them in a convection oven and used milk chocolate chips which made them a bit flatter. I have the dough in the refrigerator and am going to try baking them tomorrow at 360 without convection and from a cold state and see how that pans out. I really enjoy the flavor and I appreciate you sharing this yummy recipe.

This is the best ever cookie! My husband is so impressed with this recepie and has told me many times how much me loves them. I made 4x the recepe and added choc chips, Reese’s peanut butter chips, oatmeal raisin, coconut (macaroons) I rolled the cookie balls in a mixture of brown sugar and regular sugar and everybody is happy here! Thank you for what will be a lifelong favorite!!

I have been baking for years and have never rated a recipe until now. I LOVE this recipe. I substitute flour with the bobs 1 for 1 gf flour and they are delicious! I have had many people taste them and you wouldn’t even know they are gf.